Customer Reviews

Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Series)

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It is not just an EJB book. It shows how to integrate JSPs with EJBs by using various EJB patterns through examples. The patterns include Session Facade, Value List Iterator, Data Access Object, etc. It also covers enough information about EJBs itself. The book differs from other EJB books in the market. Other books only focuses on EJBs itself, but this one talks about JSPs, EJBs, design patterns - it's kind of all in one. The only drawback of this book is sometimes it's very hard to follow. You cannot read it for too long, the flow is missing. May be it's just because the EJB architecture itself is too complex. Although, Ed Roman's Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans book makes learning EJB peace of cake. I wish this book was also written such a way.

There are verious reasons why I bought this book:

- It shows how to integrate your EJBs with JSPs.
- EJB design patterns are exposed.
- Fairly good examples.
- Good end of the chapter summary.
- Concise and well designed chapters.

The bottom line: It's a good book worths the price. If you don't have any EJB book, you can start with this one.

I tend to learn general concepts and then fill in the details by studying examples and then practicing. This book was done primarily from the example perspective and in my opinion is a great way to learn how to build EJBs. Before getting into each example, the authors do a fine job of explaining the specific technologies in a "features, benfits/drawbacks, when to use" manner. Certainly worth the price of admission.

Really good book if you are looking at learning the intricacies of enterprise application(J2EE) design. In accordance with EJB 2.0 specs. Lots of real-world code examples that explains how write EJB components talking to standalone Java clients, JSP etc.
Also explains the design patterns very well. Particularly interesting in this is the DAO(Data Access Object) pattern design which details how to isolate database dependent code and have your applications talk to alternate database implementations. Lots of tips & techniques to achieve good design & improve performance of your apps. Overall a good book which is worth investing in.

There is no other way to say this. This book is by far the best book on EJB 2.0 that I've read. There are also EJB 1.1 references, but they didn't mean much to me because I started with 2.0

I challenge anyone to even find a typo in this book. There has to be some I am sure, but try and find them. I do not agree with another review about the major flaw with this book. If you don't know how to create .war or .ear files you shouldn't be reading this book! Just my opinion.

I hope these 2 write another book on any Java technology soon! I will be the first in line to buy it!!

This is an excellent book to learn EJB. I started to study EJB by trying out couple books in the market. But failed to understand and further frightened with J2EE. Once i started to read the book, i have a better understanding of what is EJB and J2EE. Buy the book, go through the contents, download the source codes, deploy to a J2EE compliant server and enjoy learning. It is really a nice book worth investing.

It is an introductionary level book. The only good thing is it provides an integrated example through out the book, and adds more features and components with introduction of Stateless, Stateful, Entity, Message Driven bean in each chapter.

Technically, it's really a great book. Well written and very
informative. The description on the back cover, of the book,
summarizes it better than I could, so I will not repeat it
here  see above Editorial Reviews. In addition, this book
is one of the very few technical books that contains example
code with it all working, not just some of it. The code is
available by downloading it from the authors Web Site.